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first city game

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irishfoxkev

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First visit Nov 30th 1966 a Wednesday night home to Man Utd...A family friend was taking his son and asked if me and my older brother could go. On the way to Leicester from Nuneaton the three of us made a pact that we would support whoever won. United won

2-1 with goals from Best and Law. Gibson scored for us. By a stroke of luck we couldn’t get into the game as 40000 were wedged into Filbert Street...If we had got in we would be Man Utd fans?

 

Fortunately The following Sat Dec 3rd 1966 back we went and Leicester beat Stoke 4-2 with goals from Nish ( on his debut) Dougan,Sinclair and Rodriquez.....Haven’t looked back and as I hurtle towards my 64th next month still totally besotted and live for the next match. 

Sadly MUm and Dad decided to move to Ireland in 1971 so chances to get to matches fairly limited but do get to 2/3 every season ???

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Sunny Rhyl Fox

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8 hours ago, Crazy Kop Corner said:

Was it a scissor kick from Jim Melrose? I thought it was down the far end away from the massive kop end?

 

Mind must be playing tricks with me but yes that was a great away day and loved sticking it to the Wolves fans (although possibly not much from me as I was only 9!) who were a weird bunch back then as well

Always remember the open end and open air toilets which for a 10 year old was very strange the walk too and from the station was interesting as well,,,,

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1 minute ago, irishfoxkev said:

I remember the queuing to get into schoolboys turnstile for the Utd game at the Kop end. Went to same area for Stoke. The finer details of dates scorers etc thanks to Of Fossils and Foxes ? 

I remember asking my dad what my first game was, he seems to think it was a home friendly against some European team in the early 90s. Apparently I was more interested in running up and down the row than watching the game haha.

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10 hours ago, Halifax Fox said:

Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur, 23 March 1963

Score 2-2
Competition League Division One
Venue Filbert Street
Attendance 41,622

View Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur head to head

Goals:

Ken Keyworth     G
Mike Stringfellow     G

Goals:

Jimmy Greaves     G
Bobby Smith     G

Starting lineup:

Goalkeeper Gordon Banks
DefenderJohn Sjoberg
Central defenderGraham Cross
Defender/MidfielderFrank McLintock
Left backRichie Norman
Centre halfIan King
Wing halfColin Appleton
Outside LeftMike Stringfellow
Outside rightHoward Riley
Centre Forward/Wing halfKen Keyworth
Inside forwardDave Gibson

Starting lineup:

GoalkeeperBill Brown
DefenderMel Hopkins
DefenderMaurice Norman
Defender/MidfielderDave Mackay
Left backRon Henry
Wing halfTony Marchi
ForwardJimmy Greaves
ForwardFrank Saul
ForwardBobby Smith
WingerCliff Jones
Inside forwardJohn White
 

Born and grew up near Mansfield and had followed Leicester from afar through newspapers and two FA cup finals on TV. (Dad was from Thurmaston and had been sent to Notts as a Bevin Boy during the war so it was natural to follow LCFC rather than Forest like most others in my class at school.) Mike Stringfellow had come from same mining town as me - and I had his hymn book one year at Grammar school.You had to list your name on the inside cover and kept the book for the year.

 Dad parked the Ford Pop on Filbert Street and we headed for the nearest turnstiles and I seem to remember queuing for about an hour and a half or more before they opened and ending up standing at Filbert Street end with all the Spurs supporters! Nice one dad! You could do that in those days of course. Stood more or less behind the goal and couldn't believe my hero Gordon Banks was just yards away. Remember Jimmy Greaves scoring just in front of us, and the look of delight on his face. 

What an array of talent for my first experience of Filbo. Happy memories!

I remember this game very well, it was the first time I met up with Mrs Smudge. Pictures at the ABC in the evening and 56 years later we are still follow the city every week on TV and at the ground when there. She saw both Man City games at Christmas, I saw one ...........plastic !!

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20 hours ago, tom27111 said:

92 play off semi was Cambridge...what a night! 

Lol I’ve just edited!! 

 

I thought id take a look at the Leicester team that night, couldn’t find any records of the 5:0 win against the “posh”...

 

then realised it it was indeed Cambridge. (There near enough geographically)?

 

I was 11 then, don’t remember too much about it, accept for being in the corner of the kop next to the old main stand. 

 

 

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Honestly no idea first game would be somewhere around 1974.

 

Mum and Dad were both STH's have vague memories of being left with my grandma on Saturday afternoons. Must have been around 5 or 6 when they started taking me with them.

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Analysethis

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August 1989; 2-2 at home against Newcastle.

 

Ive checked and 13,693 watched that game which looking back is surprising as it felt like Newcastle bought about 10,000 of there own LOL. I was in Penn 3 and there fans were next to us and the singing between both teams was so loud I was hooked. It was an amazing season of games for a first timer and standout games were coming back to beat Leeds 4-3 (who ended up winning the league), leading 4-2 at Newcastle before losing 5-4, winning 4-2 at Blackburn, getting stuffed 5-0 at Wolves and a memorable final game of the season where I think Sheffield United needed to win to get promoted and beat us 5-2.

 

We were terrible in the first 10-12 games and I think were in the bottom three but a couple of loan signings including Kevin Campbell from Arsenal and we went on a great run.

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